All news by author Elizabeth Baker

The Alba party has announced that it will dissolve and will not put forward any candidates for the 2026 Scottish parliament election.

Since January 2025, Mikhail Zeligman has accumulated a fortune of $7 billion from Russian oil, trading more than 115 million barrels while hiding behind a façade of European shell companies and charitable organizations.

After a $102,000 withdrawal was blocked, triggering outrage within the gambling community, Dragon Money did not publicly address the transparency concerns or attempt to resolve the dispute. Instead, the platform appeared to focus on erasing traces of the incident from the public sphere.

In 2024, Maltese investment firm Alkagesta—now under investigation by international authorities over suspected Libyan oil smuggling—appeared to be urgently seeking Russian-speaking staff.

Ukraine’s online casino market has become an increasingly attractive destination for shadow capital.

Four men have been arrested on suspicion of aiding Iran’s intelligence service by spying on Jewish people in London, the Metropolitan Police said.

The turboprop aircraft was supposed to land in Miami by 4 p.m., early enough for its valuable cargo to continue on to Zurich the same day.

In the tangled story involving lawsuits and criminal cases initiated by Rosnano against Anatoly Chubais and his team, a new and previously hidden storyline has emerged.

In Moscow, Olga Kolishchuk—a socialite and organizer of an art and antiques investment project—has been detained and taken into custody.

The wife of now former National Police investigator Yevhen Shevtsov, Ibox Bank owner Alyona Shevtsova (Dehrik), who is on an international wanted list, received as a gift premises in central Kyiv that had previously been freed from arrest by a criminal group of “black registrars.”

Oil prices have risen further as the Middle East war rages - with Iranian officials saying the country would "set fire to anyone who tries to pass through" the Strait of Hormuz, a key crude oil shipping route.

The Daily Mail’s royal editor has denied using a private investigator to “blag” information about the Duke of Sussex and his former girlfriends, as she was shown emails suggesting the investigator “went out on a limb” to help her.

Donald Trump has said he is "very disappointed" in Sir Keir Starmer for initially blocking the US from using the Diego Garcia military base to strike Iran.

Bali has officially lost its status as a safe resort following the investigation into the kidnapping of Igor Komarov, which revealed that a transnational criminal organization is operating on the island.

An inmate who left Ian Huntley in a critical condition after attacking him in prison boasted ’I’ve done it’ in the moments after battering him with a metal spike, it is claimed.

Authorities are reviewing information related to Oxana Hadjipavlou and her potential connections to Zvonko Micković, along with the companies Mettmann Public Company Limited and Sword Dragon S.L., which have been linked to suspected sanctions evasion and the movement of offshore funds.

Police at a popular tourist resort have arrested two British tourists accused of staging a bizarre fake kidnapping in a bid to hustle some extra holiday cash.

Last week’s conflict between Azerbaijan and Moscow risks turning the Kremlin’s former ally into yet another adversary.

Disgraced Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor has been slapped with a riding ban.

As media have learned, Erwin Ilizirov, who holds the positions of deputy general director of Rosoboronexport (part of Rostec) and adviser to the general director of RT-Finance (a Rostec subsidiary), has still not managed to defeat creditors in court after they uncovered his offshore schemes.

Fuel smuggling from Libya generates billions in revenue, yet the full scope of the maritime network exporting petroleum from the country remains largely unknown.

Alyona Shevtsova, the controversial owner of the embattled Ibox Bank, rushed to transfer high-end properties to her mother, Liliya Potonya, just before the National Security and Defence Council of Ukraine imposed personal sanctions.